Friday, 27 October 2006

Oracle Becomes a Platinum Member of Free Standards Group

The Free Standards Group (FSG) and Oracle have revealed that Oracle has joined the organisation as a platinum member. Oracle plans on contributing to FSG's Linux Standard Base (LSB) workgroup and providing feedback and guidance on its requirements for developing and supporting enterprise applications for Linux.

"Linux is a strategic platform for Oracle," said Donald Deutsch. Oracle Vice President, Standards Strategy and Architecture. "Because of that, we felt it's important that we extend our commitment to standards-based computing and join the standardisation authority for the Linux community. Their Linux Standard Base is an ideal forum to collaborate with the greater Linux ecosystem on important issues for our customer base. We look forward to working with the FSG and its member companies to continue to drive the adoption of Linux as a solution for our enterprise customers."

Oracle produced its first commercial Linux database in 1998. Oracle's Linux Engineering team has made code contributions such as Oracle Cluster File System that is now part of Linux kernel 2.6.16. Oracle has been and will continue contributing Linux related innovations, modifications, documentation and fixes directly to the Linux community on a timely basis, the company said.